Brief Update.

I'm in Berlin after attending a Europe-wide YWAM conference about four hours south of here. At the conference I did a 90 minute seminar on human trafficking and got terrific feedback. Yay! I made a million connections with YWAM people in eastern Europe and feel more confident about my travels into that region.

I'm staying the night at the house of an old friend, a lady whom I visited in Thailand a few years ago and volunteered to help her reach prostitutes in Bangkok. She moved to Germany and now lives in Berlin. Today I went with her and her small church team to a tourist area downtown. We passed out little chocolates to the prostitutes and cards with messages written on them about how they are beautiful in God's sight. This church group has been faithfully visiting this area of town for about the past 9 months. They've started to develop friendship with some of the women--it was great to watch them go up to women wearing tight corsets and painfully high heels and give them big hugs.

An ironic moment: A beautiful prostitute talking the six of us, chattering away happily standing next to a car with a bumper sticker that read in English, "You are beautiful because you are made in the image of God." I so wished I could have snapped a picture of the two--the woman and the sticker.

Amy, my friend from the Salem base, joined me yesterday from the States. It's nice to have a travel buddy. In two days or so we are meeting a team from a YWAM base in the southern part of Germany to travel with them into the boarder towns between Germany and Czech. Brothels abound along the boarder. We are joining a team of eight to pray over a specific town that two YWAMers are moving to in a few weeks. Their sole purpose for moving to the town is to begin a ministry reaching out to the prostitutes. What a great opportunity to not only observe the issues of human trafficking and prostitution but to invest in prayer and support for a future ministry!